Masthead- top 1/3rd of the page – Bright and bold colours.

Button with an image of a character inside – with a caption. The picture comes out of the button slightly.

No house style/colour theme.Date

Price in a bubble/shape

Strapline – include new info, prizes and competitions

Other Soaps are used on the cover

Eye contact

Anchoring the cover star with the main feature – audience know this is the feature relating to the cover star(s)

Main Feature is one snappy word/phrase, bright colours.

Halo effect is used around the cover star(s).

Barcode

Branding is anchored with the strap line

Cover Star is large in the frame – mid close up.

‘We love telly’ has 3 cover stars on the cover, which would be ideal to use on my own piece, as it suits the storyline I wish to use, which is typical cheating, therefore needing 3 characters on view on the cover. This type of magazine is trashy, chaotic and busy.

‘TV buzz’ has a character displayed as a plastic doll. Which plays on the audiences knowledge of the programme, and intertextually, how everybody is ‘plastic’. This type of magazine is less chaotic, more simplistic and clean.

Typical storylines:

-Cheating on another's boyfriend/girlfriend-Secret love-Pregnancy-Break up-Found in bed with someone-2 characters pregnant with 1 male

Other soaps to use on the cover:

-Made In Chelsea-Jersey Shore-Geordie Shore-Desperate Scousewives

The cast of the soap are sat and stood up all together. The way each character is displayed is important, the anchorage and the position of who is beside who is deliberate.